Comments on: Layups: New David Robinson Mix http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: MyArvydas http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683&cpage=1#comment-10504 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:32:54 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683#comment-10504 Too true, Neil! Plus, "The Admirable Admiral" as we like to call him in France is as great off the court as he was on the hardwood, so what's not to like?

]]> By: Jason J http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683&cpage=1#comment-10488 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:45:58 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683#comment-10488 I love KBlaze! Used to post on the ISH message board with him and he was always entertaining and intelligent, and he has the best mixes.

Bradlee - I think that opinion is changing as metrics make it more and more apparent just how special the Admiral really was. If you could give Ewing any edge it would pretty much have to be intangible - along the lines of leadership / toughness, etc. - because Robinson's stats for the era are second only to MJ. Otherwise I guess you could say the Ewing played a more disciplined style and more back to the basket ball that let the Knicks run that conservative post and kick offense more easily, but I'm not sure that's really true, and basically it's just making excuses. Even the SRS argument favors Robinson.

]]> By: Bradlee http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683&cpage=1#comment-10483 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:19:51 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2683#comment-10483 I agree 100%. If he could have skipped out on those couple of seasons with the Navy is career numbers would have been that much greater. IMO Robinson > Ewing, but if feel most people would place it the other way around (NY bias).

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